Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears bulky brown painted plate armor. He has wavy beige fur. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines copper.

Personality: He is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He comes from a rich western family. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He became a Spice Merchant soon after.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 400 gp. Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Moss agate (7 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears violet robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a flail, but if one is not available she will default to her hammer. Her white hair is cut short. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Gifted from a young age, Herleva studied abroad. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She struck the Healer job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 4000 sp. Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp).

Description: This dark-skinned male tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: 2'8" and muscular, this northern woman is typically in her Actor uniform. Her tied-back hair is chestnut. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Bree was born with her mother's beautiful face. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has worked as a Actor like her mother before her.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, white, dusty cloak. He is physically well-built. His white hair is thinning but still full. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is a Ploughman first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Born in the north to a Ploughman, Radomir learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To be a Mortician again; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 120 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.